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- A freedman or freedwoman is a formerly enslaved person who has been released from slavery, usually by legal means. Historically, slaves were freed by manumission...
- was a social paradox for a freedwoman, who would be expected to conform to the social role of matrona. While a freedwoman may be granted citizenship,...
- Claudia Acte was a freedwoman of ancient Rome who became a mistress of the emperor Nero. She came from Asia Minor and might have become a slave of the...
- their female partners, but one had married a freedwoman following his discharge, while the other had a freedwoman of his family (gens) as a concubina. The...
- priest of the goddess Sulis, lived 75 years; Calpurnia Trifosa, his freedwoman (and) wife, had this set up" (RIB 155). Receptus' widow's name, Trifosa...
- mother's, children born from contubernium between a male slave and a freedwoman were themselves free citizens. If she remained a slave, their children...
- Epicharis (Ancient Gr****: Ἐπίχαρις) (died 65 CE) was an Ancient Roman freedwoman and a leading member of the Pisonian conspiracy against the emperor Nero...
- Quinctia Marita (fl. 1st century CE) was a Roman freedwoman from Caruntum. She is primarily known from an epitaph, which she had arranged in her will to...
- the succession." Sources describe Acte as a slave girl (Shotter) and a freedwoman (Champlin and Scullard). Nero or his moneyers reduced the weight of the...
- and AD 30. Tituria Ɔ. l. Synetia, a freedwoman buried at Rome early in the first century, along with the freedwoman Tituria Xyne and the freedman Quintus...